Man I think low carb or paleo is the way to go for sure for health and weight maintenance but I don't know about for happiness. when I'm on it, I miss out on all the sugary goodness and great tasting carb creations. anybody try a month on off approach?

LibraryCard - ^ the problem I found when doing a low carb paleo approach was that when I ate carbs it had a spiral effect where I ended up craving carbs like an animal. Even paleo carbs like fruit would make me crave carbs like a fiend. Sugar is addicting and when you have some you want more.

I'd say low carb paleo is easier to follow than regular paleo because it is sugar free. Sugar is more addicting than any other substance IMO.

True. I did well for a while and lost a lot of weight but then I lost my job. Decided I would use my cheat day after several months and stayed at my moms for a week gaining like 18 pounds lol. That cheat day turned into cheat week(of course). Now I'm off of paleo but still practicing intermittent fasting for the most part. Hope to kick the sugar addiction again soon.

JFC1001 - Giving up dairy was harder than I expected. Man I miss milk in my coffee. To me this is the only hard part. Fuck carbs and booze.

I thought giving up milk would be impossible.

I used to drink a minimum of 3 pints of milk a day. It's been easier than I thought to be honest, I've never been much of a coffee drinker so that isn't such a big deal for me. I've basically just replaced everything I used to drink with water.

had lg handful of blueberries and about 20 dry roasted (no salt) almonds.

then about 30 min later I had 4 hard boiled eggs, and an apple with about 3tbs almond butter.

I feel full now, but more concerned that I may overeat as I had a tendency to do with all other foods. I guess I'll see how I feel come lunchtime. I have 1 chicken breast and a sweet potato with my name on it. Also a small bag of carrots.

dinner most likely will be 2 turkey burgers and salad (will make the dressing with balsamic vin, olive oil, honey and dijon mustard)

Almonds are paleo so it would stand to reason that raw unsalted almond butter would be as well. there are no other ingredients except raw almonds. I googled plenty of almond butter paleo recipes. If I am way off here please let me know.

http://paleodietlifestyle.com/salad-dressing-and-vinaigrettes/

is where I got the salad dressing recipe. Again, if I am being misdirected/misguided, let me know. There are a shit ton of paleo sites out there and most of them seemed to have similar guidlines recipes.

Leigh - You could be right, I'm not an authority, I just thought that crunching almonds would leave a crumbly mess rather than a paste. The same way fruit juice is not pale, even if its pure fruit.

Basically, if monkeys (or apes) didn't eat it, I don't really see how its paleo

I'm doing this diet with one main philosophy:

It's the ingrediets that matter, not what you do with them.

So basically, for example, I occasionaly make huge pots of soup and just throw in every vegetable I can get my hands on, water and some meat like Chicken or whatever. A caveman/hunter gatherer couldn't make soup like that. But I'm not a caveman/hunter gatherer. I don't look at this as "I must live as a caveman" because that is a pretty stupid mindset to have. If that was the case I would have to eat some sabretooth for dinner.

All I'm doing is cutting out foods were not around before agriculture (paleolithic) and eating more food that is good for me like fruits and vegetables.

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